Anger issues? Hold your distance.
Politics and global views? Hold your distance.
Be detached from family splits. It’s essential.
Thoughts that bind you, winding round and wangling,
Strangling in the long run.
Thereās one sun, one group of laws,
Cause and effect, effects and causeā¦
An endless chain and endless series.
Your YOU, the bad, the good, the weak, the strong,
The right, the wrong –
it all fall into this container, therefore,
Hold on to the thing you are: you are a star.
It is the harder but the truer road
That in the long run takes the load
Of worry, hurry, off your shudders, er, you shoulders.
Things come together, fall apart.
That law is at the heart of things:
Bodies, countries, all machines.
Put together to form form.
Thermodynamic law the second says:
There’ll always be a slow decline into disorder.
You simply do not know when, how –
Later or right now.
So forge a distance and hold to it.
Detachment and reduced desire.
Are your saviour from the mire of life’s muck and fire.
Keep resistance to the distance at its lowest.
Curb the worst, nurture the best,
Unlocked from all that happens,
You are YOU and no one like.
in other words you are unique,
Deserving of all happiness.
Hold Your Distance 5.27.2019 The Processes: Creative, Thinking, Meditative II; Arlene Nover Corwin
Arlene Corwin Poetry 